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| Dagestan on assistance to refugees from Palestine |
| 2023-12-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] In Dagestan, the issuance of Russian passports and other documents to 154 newly arrived migrants from Palestine has begun, the issues of employment of adult Palestinians and education of children are being resolved, the government of the republic reported today. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 21, the Dagestan authorities announced that they were ready to accept up to 200 refugees from Palestine, and 8.2 million rubles had been allocated for their accommodation. From November 25 to December 7, five groups of immigrants from Palestine arrived in Makhachkala. Those who arrived will receive refugee status, the government of the republic announced. Residents of Palestine who arrived in Dagestan asked to be provided with cellular communications and the Internet, as well as to issue documents. Some of them said that they intend to obtain Russian citizenship. All displaced persons are housed at a recreation center near Makhachkala. There are 154 Palestinian residents in Dagestan, including 82 children, they are located on the territory of one of the recreation centers, Chairman of the Government of the Republic Abdulmuslim Abdulmuslimov said at a meeting today. “The total number of people of working age is 70 people. All were examined by doctors, they were provided with basic necessities. A psychologist works on a permanent basis at the temporary accommodation center, but, as colleagues report, the condition and mood of the arriving citizens, and the environment created around them, is positive,” - he said. According to him, work is underway “to determine their legal status on the territory of Russia and the possibility of issuing domestic and foreign passports.” At the temporary accommodation point, applications and other documents are accepted from displaced persons for the issuance of internal Russian passports, for identification and for the restoration of a previously lost passport, according to a message on the telegram channel of the government of Dagestan. The authorities of the republic are taking measures to provide employment and education to arriving Palestinians, Deputy Prime Minister Ramazan Jafarov reported at the meeting. In particular, according to him, children are taught the Russian language at the temporary accommodation center. “After studying the Russian language for six months, the children will be sent to school and kindergarten. Two minibuses have been allocated for transporting children,” Jafarov said. He added that the issue of enrolling two Palestinian students in the medical college at the Dagestan State Medical University is being decided. In addition, according to Jafarov, arriving Palestinians will be able to take advanced training courses in Dagestan. Among them there are qualified doctors, but without the appropriate medical certificate they can only work as local therapists or local pediatricians. Therefore, the issue of improving their qualifications is being considered at the Institute of Additional Professional Education of the Dagestan Medical University. “If they are employed not in Makhachkala, but in other cities and regions of the republic, I ask you to recommend that heads of municipalities, if necessary, allocate office housing to arriving citizens (including if they agree to move to the countryside),” the publication quotes as saying Deputy Prime Minister Let us remind you that a working group has been created in Chechnya to receive 250 refugees from Palestine, places have been prepared for them in the children's health camp "Mountain Key" in the village of Avtury. The first group of Palestinians arrived in Chechnya on November 29, there were 51 people in it. On December 1, the second group of migrants of 116 people arrived in Chechnya. The reception of immigrants from Palestine was organized in Dagestan and Chechnya on the initiative of the federal authorities, Caucasus experts Akhmet Yarlykapov and Ruslan Kutaev suggested. The decision to accept a small number of Palestinians was made by the authorities of the republics, since it is beneficial to their image and will not hit the budget, objected political scientist Sergei Zhavoronkov. |
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